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rN0> * 5aid;MEAT/FEED HIMPLENTY OFMEAT ADID YOU5 AYWEAK?BENAVIDES FACTS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1939Test Watches AtSchvab JewelersFree of ChargeHumble Introduces Voices Heard On Saturday’s Radio ProgramsA time-o-graph machine hasbeen installed at the Schvab’sJewelry. Store in the Rialto TheaterBuilding in Alice for the con-"xenieince of customers who wanttheir watches tested.'j his instrument will record therate and the mechanical actionof a watch and give a printed rec-ord of it in one minute. It candetect whether a watch is slowor fast as little as five secondsper day.The machine recently purchasedby Mr. Schvab is the second ofits kind in South Texas, the otherbeing in VictoriaMr. and Mrs. Earl Lassiterdrove to San Antonio Monday onbusiness, and to Kingsville Wed-' nesday of this week.Mr. and Mrs. Coronado Oliveiraand Mrs. John Edds went to Lare-do Tuesday to visit with friendsand shop.Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Koester andson, Earl, and Miss Mary BelleYaello were present at the Home-coming of the Lutheran Collegein Seguin last week.Eyes examined—Glasses fittedDr. Paul OwensOPTOMETRISTALICE TEXAS106 N. Reynolds — Phone 622Let Us Help YouREMODEL OR REPAIRYOUR PROPERTYNO CASH PAYMENT ORMortgage NecessaryMonthly Payments 1 to 3 YearsLow Interest RateRAMOS LUMBER andHARDWARE CO.BENAVIDES, TEXASFootball fansthroughout Texasknow the voices ofthis quartet of an-nouncers heard onSouthwest Confer-ence football broad-casts sponsored bythe Humble Oil & Re-fining Company. Top,left, is Kern Tips,whose reputation isnational in scope;experts agree thatTips is one of thebest football announcers in the country—many say the best.Next to Tips, on the right, is all-America Cy Leland, whobrings to broadcasting not only an ability to make a radiofootball game lively and interesting but also a knowledge ofthe game acquired by stellar play in the T. C. U. backfield inhis college days. Bottom, right, is the picture of Hal Thomp-son, Station WFAA’s sports authority; this is his third yearon Humble’s broadcasts. Flanking Thompson is Eddie Dunn, genial and well known radio personalitywho entered his second year on the Humble Company’s football broadcasts this season.Mrs. John Edds of Floresvilleis visiting her parents Mr. andMrs. G. Ramirez for two weeks.FREL’S REGISTHEATERSAN DIEGO, TEXASJIMMIE REYNA, ManagerSUNDAY and MONDAYNovember 5-6BOB BURNS—in—I’M FROM MISSOURINews - ComedyTUESDAY ONLYNovember 7GLENDA FARRELL andBARTON McLANE—in—TORCHY BLANE INCHINATOWNSerial, “Dick Tracy”WEDNESDAY & THURSDAYNovember 8-9GINGER ROGERS andJAMES ELLISON—in—FIFTH AVENUE GIRLFRIDAY ONLYNovember 10AN ALL SPANISH CAST—in—“A LO MACHO”SATURDAY ONLYNovember 11ROY ROGERS andGABBY HAYESWALL STREETCOWBOYCartoon - Serial, “The LoneRanger”Show Starts at 2:30 o’clock.Admission: 10c and 25cTuesday 5c and 15cMATINEE DAILYMr. and Mrs. F. Vaello, MissFrankie Vaello, Mrs. G. G. Gu-tierrez, Mrs. F. O. Farias, Raquel,Elida and A. R. Farias wereamong those attending the Iza-guirre-Farias wedding in LaredoFriday.Circus CueFor ChildrenTo Be GoodMrs. Maria U. Rosas has re-turned home to Benavides afterspending two weeks at the King'sDaughter Hopsital in Temple,where she underwent a seriousoperation.Mrs. Sabas de los Santos visitedfriends and relatives here Wed-nesday evening.Misses Celia Ramirez and Bea-trice Saenz went to Laredo Wed-nesday.Mr. and Mrs. Toni Moore andfamily and Mr. and Mrs. GeraldStevens and family attended abarbecue at Welder Park at Sin-ton Sunday. The picnic was giv-en by a Corpus Christi bakeryf&r its employees.Tommie Irwin, Clarence Stockand Bill Kennedy went to LaredoTuesday afternoon.ifir...■ f -RICH 111 n€C€HAIW” food €L€m€nnCITY MARKET andGROCERYNEXT to STOCK’SBenavides, Texas-\-Twice a year children find itpays to be good—when Christmasapproaches and when the circusannounces its visit.Nobody is much concerned aboutSanta Claus just now, but theother occasion which calls forgood behaviour is close at hand.Announcement has been made thatRussell Bros.’ Circus will appearin San Diego on Sunday, Nov. 12,afternoon and night.Parents find Russell Bros, aparticularly worth-while circus forchildren because of a completeabsence from its premises of anygambling games or undesirableexhibitions sometimes associatedwith itinerant amusement enter-prises.The circus menagerie givesyoungsters a chance to observe avariety of wild animals at closerange. Especially appealing is thefascinating African chimpanzee,Topsy, with her childlike man-nerisms and pranks.In the main circus performance,Walter Jennier’s marvelous train-ed sea-lion exhibition wins im-mediate response from children andadults alike, and Buddy, the starperformer, is a prime favoritewith all audiences. The ele-phants, of course, are always asource of delighted amazementto the kiddies, while in the clevertricks of cute little ponies, dogs,monkeys, and even cats, they canpicture their own animal pets.J. P. Hookstra was in AliceSaturday.Frank E. Peterson of Alice visit-ed Mr. and Mrs. T. V. ComptonTuesday.Whitney Davis and John Du-pree went to Aransas Pass andCorpus Saturday, returning homeMonday.Calvin North made a businesstrip to Alice Wednesday.T. V. Compton was in FreerSaturday.Mr. and Mi's. Fernando Fuentesand children of San Diego werein town Sunday.Mrs. Concepcion Romano anddaughter were in Corpus ChristiSunday.Merle West motroed to ThreeRivers on business Monday.T. V. Compton was in AguaDulce and Corpus Christi Wed-nesday.Frank and Murray Daniels werein Corpus Christi Wednesday.Mrs. Calvin North left Sundayfor Laredo to visit her mother,Mrs. Josephine Spurries, a week.J. M. Momeny went Wednesdayto San Antonio on business.Mrs. Inez Robinson was in La-ieco Sunday.FALL WEATHERMEANS FALL CLOTHES----With fall weather in the air, it is time to thinkabout new clothes for the season. We have a newstock of1 merchandise for men, women and children.Coats, jackets, sweaters and dress clothes. Be sureto see our complete line at the most reasonableprices. &■?El Nuevo MundoEASIER ON THE EYESWITH NEW-LARGER-CLEANEREASY-EYE-TYPESAN ANTONIOMORNING EXPRESSThe only English speaking morning newspaper pub-lished in San Antonio giving readers hours laternews of World Affairs - Complete Market and Fin-ancial reports - Nations most popular comics - Allsport events covered by expert writers.SAVE ON ANNUAL OFFER RATES—GOOD FORLIMITED TIME ONLYEXPRESS, DAILY ANDSUNDAY - ONE YEARRegularly $8.50NOW $6-95EXPRESS, DAILY ONLY-One Year ^ jjtf OTRegularly $6.50 aNext to Rita TheaterBenavides, TexasEXPRESS, SUNDAY ONLY-One YearRegularly $2.50EVENING NEWS - ONE YEARRegularly $4.50EVENING NEWS With SundayEXPRESS- One Year Regularly $7.00$2.00$3.95$5.95Be among those well informed on all importantNEWS happenings during the coming year. Takeadvantage of this opportunity to save on next year’sreading. Place your subscription today. See yourExpress-News agent, Postmaster, local Newspaperor mail direct to Circulation Department/. ISAN ANTONIO EXPRESSSAN ANTONIO EVENING NEWS____ (Texas Foremost Newspaper)lOCALSF. C. Barr and Tom Hallamancf the Duval Pipe Line Companyattended a company meeting atHouston last wbek. They return-ed Friday.Mr. and Mrs. Eloy Farias andsisters of Brownsville arrivedThursday to attend the Izaguirre-f'arias wedding.Dr. and Mrs. J. C. Gonzalez, Jr.attended the Texas-Rice game atAustin Saturday.Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Kunetka ofHouston were among those presentat the Lutheran College Home-coming at Seguin last week-end.Miss Emma Cadena, Miss Odi-lia Oliveira, and Leonel Oliveiraspent Sunday in Harlingen andBrownsville.Mrs. Calvin North returnedthis week after spending a fewdays in Laredo.Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Boren andgrandchildren were Laredo busi-ness callers Saturday.Mr. and Mrs. John Franklinbought a 1936 Ford Coach lastweek.Mrs. John Franklin was takento the Alice hospital Tuesday foran appendicitis operation.Mrs. Jesusa B. Garcia, SamuelB. Garcia and Evangelina Roma-no spent Saturday in Laredo.Romeo Salinas visited in CorpusSunday.Mr. and Mrs. I.C. Shirley ofAlice visited Mr. and Mrs. S. E.Boren Friday.Regular Meals and ShortOrdersThe Texas CafeJoe Trujillo, Prop.Benavides, TexasPmteW. M. U.Thursday, October 26, the W.M. U. of the Benavides Baptistchurch held its regular monthlybusiness meeting. Ten were pres-ent. Many items of business werediscussed, and all offices of theunion filled. The society adjourn-ed to meet the following Thurs-day in two circles for missionstudy. The Lee Locket circlemeets with Mrs. J. H. Schubert.Mrs. Earl Carpenter is leader. TheThe Lottie Moon circle meets withMrs. Tom VanDeventer.WORKERS COUNCILTuesday, November 7, the Be-navides Baptist church will enter-tain the Workers’ Conference fromthis district. The ladies are pre-paring a boonteoua dinner, andare expecting over a hundred out-of town Baptists to be theirguests. This is the first time thisconference has met in Benavides.CAMP FIRE PARTYThe Jr. Boys had a moonlightcamp fire party and weiner roastat Mrs. Bailey’s back yard. Railsplitting was demonstrated. Achain of prayer was had holdinghands around the camp fire. Thechain was not broken by a singleboy in any place.No weiners or marshmellows oranything was left. Those presentwere Jim and Jack Wilkinson,Farl Hill Carpenter, ArmandowSierra, Harry Kelly, J. D. Paton,J. D. Burton, Jr., Bobby Curtiss,Joe and Lee Lon Harvill.SUNDAY SCHOOLThe attendance this Sunday wasa little lower at Sunday schoolti an last Sunday. We had only104 compared with 117 the Sun-day before. Let’s make up thedifference, and go it one betterin the Sundays to come this month.Remember G. A. and R. A. andSunshine band meet at the churchFriday afternoon as soon afterfour o’clock as the children canget there. The R. A.’s lead inattendance.Mrs. Floyd Haliburton and thethree girls visited with Mr. andMrs. Bob Pierce in Freer Sundayafternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Piercewere former residents of Bena-■> ides.Mrs. Manuel Gonzalez is con-fined to bed suffering from pneu-monia.EAT HEREforBig, DelicousHelpingsat Low Cost!No need ever to go away hun-gry when you come here for ameal. We’ve built our businesson BIG portions and SMALLprices—and food that’s reallyDELICIOUS!LIBERTY CAFERobert Bozada, ManagerBenavides, TexasCONVENIENCEECONOMY . . .TO CORPUS CHRISTI9:45 A. M.5:15 M.2:15 A. M.TO LAREDO4:25 A.M.11:15 A. M.7:00 P. M.Bus Station located atDRUQ STOREMr. and Mrs. S. E. Boren havebought a 1936 Ford Coach.J. R. DE LEON, Prop.Benavides, TexasYOU HEAR ITTHE CALL FOR THE BEER THAT/At the Carnival or Country Fair, you'll hear the call for thebeer that pleases your taste., delicious, sparkling; Texas' OwnPEARL beer. PEARL is the robust, heavier-bodied brew that hasbeen "thirst-choice'' of three generations of taste-wise Texans.Once you've tasted its flavorfu1 goodness, its zestful tang,you'll declare it your favorite, too. Wherever good fellows gettogether, you hear them call for PEARL Beer. The reason is inthe bottle. Find it yourself. Say, "Bottle of PEARL, please"!San Diego Distributing CoJ. C. PEREZ, ManagerPHONES 35 and 36San Diego, Texas■ -